Cafeteria stations feature fresh-made wraps and salads, hormone-free burgers and mounds of fruit arrayed on bamboo mats. Food is served on compostable sugar cane plates and beverages in cornstarch cups. Receptacles invite easy waste separation. Welcome to the Longworth House Office Building Cafe in Washington, D.C. The food service makeover is a tipoff to how fast things are changing in one branch of the U.S. legislature. Just over a year ago-March 1, 2007-newly elected Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued her edict: the House of Representatives must become carbon neutral by the end of this year and cut its carbon footprint in half within a decade. The Speaker s first order of business was to lure Dan Beard out of semi-retirement to act as Greening Czar.
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机译：自助餐厅设有新鲜的包装和沙拉，无激素的汉堡以及排列在竹席上的水果堆。食物用可堆肥的甘蔗板和玉米淀粉杯中的饮料供应。容器可轻松进行废物分离。欢迎来到位于华盛顿特区的Longworth House Office Building Cafe。食品服务的改头换面是美国立法机关一个分支机构变化速度有多快的提示。就在一年多前-2007年3月1日-新当选的议长南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）发布了法令：众议院必须在今年年底之前实现碳中和，并在十年内将其碳足迹减少一半。议长的首要任务是引诱Dan Beard退出半退休制，担任Greening Czar。
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